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PenguinsSummer
Douglas
Penguin feathers are so small and tightly packed there can be over seventy feathers per square inch!
The feathers are coated with a special oil which makes them waterproof.
Hmmm… I wonder if
my feathers are like that?
An adult penguin can eat up to thirty pounds of food at one time!
A penguin’s diet consists of krill, fish, and squid.
Krill Arctic Grayling fish
Squid
When swimming in open water, a penguin can swim about fifteen miles per hour!
A penguin’s black and white “suit” coloring is used to blend in with the ice at the top of the water so predator can’t see them.
Even though I’m blue I am
still a penguin.
Penguin wings are much smaller and thicker than those of a flying bird because penguins can’t fly, but they can swim instead.
The bone in a penguin’s wing is solid unlike the bone in the wings of a flying bird.
The largest muscles in a penguin’s body are in the wings, so the penguins are strong enough to swim.
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